In the Interest of S.O.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that difficulty in finding an adoptive home for children with serious emotional problems is an insufficient basis for refusing to terminate parental rights
• holding that difficulty in finding an adoptive home for children with serious emotional problems is an insufficient basis for refusing to terminate parental rights
• determining that social worker’s testimony was evaluative when she described the bond between the mother and her two older daughters as unhealthy
• finding return to mother’s care would place children “in imminent risk of harm” due to her “pattern of sporadic cohabitation and visitation” with abusive father and her “failure to protect the children from abuse”
• noting serious 7 emotional harm to child from violence in the home
• noting serious emotional harm to child from violence in the home

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).